[petsc-dev] PETSc Quarterly Telecon

[Karl Rupp]

Hi all,

here are my coarse-grained notes from the meeting:

* 'next' branch: Currently we are fighting the problem of integration 
testing vs. basic testing in the same branch.
   Barry: Run basic tests before merging to next!
   'make alltest' for ~3 configurations should cover most problems.

* Test harness:
   Migration to new test harness will take another month or two.
   Most directories already converted, but a couple of tricky 
directories are left.
   Discussion about speeding up tests, new test harness should provide 
better fine-grained control.
   Jed makes a case for Github instead of Bitbucket. Will be considered 
in the future, but no urgency.

* NUMFOCUS:
   Fell off the urgency list.
   Still considered to be a good idea.

* PETSc User Meeting:
   Contact sponsors by the end of the year.
   Make a list for people to contact at institutions in Europe.

* SIAM Annual Meeting:
   Richard and Karl will continue the idea of hosting a minisymposium.
   Other participants of the call are most likely not going there.

* Documentation:
   Patrick wants to set up better introductory tutorials.
   Deal.ii-style tutorials desirable, yet there's a significant 
maintenance cost attached to it.
   Split up tutorial slides into smaller chunks (one PDF per chapter).
   Stop duplicating code tutorials where only a few lines of code are 
actually different.


Best regards,
Karli



On 12/18/2017 05:46 PM, Richard Tran Mills wrote:
> Karl,
> 
> Thanks for organizing this. Unfortunately, I'll be on a plane at that 
> time so I won't be able to join. I would be grateful if someone could 
> write some brief meeting minutes for those of us who are interested but 
> cannot make it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard
> 
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 2:51 AM, Karl Rupp <rupp at iue.tuwien.ac.at 
> <mailto:rupp at iue.tuwien.ac.at>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     the PETSc quarterly telecon will take place today, Monday, at 2pm
>     Chicago time.
> 
>     If anyone of you has a good software to hold the telecon (maybe
>     BlueJeans or Zoom), please post a link to the channel. If no link has
>     been posted by 1:30pm CT, I'll post a Google Hangouts link.
> 
>     Incomplete list of topics to discuss:
>        * User Meeting 2018
>        * Organizational Ideas (e.g. NUMFOCUS)
>        * Test Harness
>        * Documentation improvements
>        * Integration management for branch 'next'
> 
>     Please feel free to propose additional items to discuss by replying to
>     this email.
> 
>     Best regards,
>     Karli
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     On 12/13/2017 07:12 AM, Karl Rupp wrote:
>      > Dear PETSc folks,
>      >
>      > the next quarterly teleconference is due. It is intended to
>     discuss "the
>      > bigger picture" rather than technical details. Thus, feel free to
>     join
>      > even if you have not yet contributed thousands of lines of code
>     (yet) ;-)
>      >
>      > Please state your availability by Sunday, December 17, here:
>      > https://www.when2meet.com/?6542211-1rhUE
>     <https://www.when2meet.com/?6542211-1rhUE>
>      > All times are relative to the PETSc meridian (Chicago/Central Time).
>      >
>      > (and let Jed know if you think that Doodle has a better interface
>     ;-) )
>      >
>      > If we can't find a reasonable time slot due to Christmas, I'll
>     open up a
>      > another poll in early January.
>      >
>      > Thanks and best regards,
>      > Karli
> 
>